Harold Bascom Blogs

The Petrified Bird series began with me wanting to say that the effects of modernism on nature, personified as scared birds, is worthy of note—even if only passively. I remember the day the idea came to me. I was sitting with sketch book on the deck ... 

Back in the early seventies when I was serving an apprenticeship under Caldecott winning book illustrator Tom Feelings, he admonished me to keep building files of photographic reference material to aid my drawing of human figures and animals, and of ...